Julius Caesar act 3 questions
What information does Antony reveal to the crowd during his funeral speech?
Caesar left the Roman people money and property in his will.
Review the chart you created. How do the events in Act 3 affect your impression of Brutus?
Act 3 shows the sequence when Brutus started on his act of betrayal towards Caesar. I think this act conveys to the readers that Brutus is a smart, calm, and collected man.
Reread Marc Antony's soliloquy in lines 254-275 of scene 1. What does this speech reveal about the motivation for Antony's actions in the rest of Act 3?
Antony is a loyal and clever supporter of Caesar.
Why does Antony's funeral speech have a much more powerful effect on the crowd than Brutus' speech? Cite details in your response.
Antony's speech had more literary devices and he was able to persuade the audience to turn against the conspirators.
In a chart like the one shown, analyze examples of rhetorical devices in the funeral speeches delivered by Brutus and Antony in Act 3, scene 2, lines 13-42 and 70-248. How does Antony use repetition to contradict assertions in Brutus' speech?
Brutus -logos - "Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may be the better judge." -antithesis - "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." Antony -pathos - "My heart is in the coffin there" -repetition - "And Brutus is an honorable man." Antony uses the repetition of "ambitious and honorable" to contradict Brutus because he made the audience think one thing but he meant another.
The novelist and critic E. M. Forster wrote that Brutus "cannot realize that men seek their own interests, for he has never sought his own, he has nobly lived among noble thoughts, wedded to a noble wife." How is this limitation reflected in Brutus' words and actions in Act 3? Cite examples from the text.
Brutus doesn't realize the enormity of what he's done and he thinks he did it for the greater good and not for his own interest/ motives.
What disagreement do Brutus and Cassius have about the plans for Caesar's funeral?
Cassius doesn't want Antony to speak and Brutus is ok with it as long as he gets to speak before Antony.
Why does the crowd attack Cinna the poet?
Cinna is also the name of a conspirator and the crowd thought it was him.
What request do the conspirators make just before killing Caesar?
Let Publius Cimber become a citizen and reverse his decision of exiling him.
Act 3 begins and ends with violent events. What does the murder of Cinna the poet in Scene 3 suggest about the use of violence to achieve political goals? Cite evidence to support your conclusion.
The murder of Cinna the poet suggests that the Romans weren't afraid to kill people in order for their opinions to be heard.
What dramatic irony does Shakespeare create in lines 1-2 of Act 3, Scene 1?
When Artemidorus approaches and tries to hand him the paper that warns Caesar about the conspirators, Caesar refuses and Publius pushes Artemidorus away before he can give Caesar his paper. Because the audience knows that the contents of this paper urge Caesar to beware of Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Metellus Cimber Decius Brutus, and Caius Ligarius they are aware of the dangers Caesar faces while he is unaware of them.
